🇨🇲 Today’s Crisis & Cameroon’s Independence Dates | Trap#8: The Stolen Calendar | Anglophone Crisis

Описание: Part One: Cameroon has more than one “founding date” — 1960, 1961, and 1972 — and that confusion is not accidental.
In Trap #8 (“The Stolen Calendar”), we expose how a captured state controls memory, and how broken national history fuels fragmentation and the Anglophone crisis.

Update 1: “First Friday in Black” (2026 begins with remembrance).
A public message circulated under Maître Alice Nkom frames the first Friday of 2026 as a moment to remember lives shattered by repression, neglected roads, and abandoned hospitals—and to refuse collective amnesia.

Update 2: Competing legitimacy at the start of 2026.
A video statement circulated with Maître Alice Nkom reading a message attributed to Issa Tchiroma Bakary, presented as a counter-address to the official end-of-year messaging. We analyse the political meaning of this moment: how rival narratives fight to define who speaks for the nation.

Then we go deeper:

In this episode, we break down:

Cameroon’s key dates: 1 Jan 1960, 1 Oct 1961, 20 May 1972 — what each one represents

Why Cameroon’s “national birthday” is contested—and why that matters

How captured memory becomes a governance tool (what is celebrated vs what is silenced)

Why the Anglophone crisis gained steam in a country with fragmented national history

The warning: how regimes that over-manage memory risk being written out of history

Question of the day:

If Cameroon had to choose one national “birthday,” should it be 1960, 1961, or 1972—and why?

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